Attachment for bicycle-handles



J. GODFREY. ATTACHMENT FOR-BICYCLE HANDLES.

Patented July 20,1897.

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JAMES GODFREY, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

ATTACHM ENT FOR BICYCLE-HANDLES.

' SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Application filed August 21,1896. Serial No. 603,478.

Patent No. 586,897, dated July 20, 1897.

(No model.)

To an whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES GODFREY, a citizenof the United States,residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inAttachments for Bicycle-Handles; and I do declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to thefigures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

My invent-ion is an improvement in that class of bicycles which areprovided with a third or supplemental handle for use in steering themachine with one hand.

The novelty consists in the construction and arrangement of partshereinafter described, whereby the steering handle is adapted for beingadjusted and secured in different positions or elevations, as required,to adapt it for use by different riders.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation ofmy improvedattachment for bicycles, showing the same in position on the handle-bar.Fig.2 is a plan view of the same.

To put my invention into practice with a bicycle of ordinaryconstruction, consisting of the frame 2, the vertical guide-post 1, towhich the handle-bar 3 is connected, and

vother well-known features, I attach to the said handle-bar 3, by meansof bolts 6, a clevis 5, which spans the guide-post 1 and is an equaldistance between the two handles 4.

Rigidly attached to this clevis 5 is a handle 7, by means of which therider may properly guide the machine with either hand Connected bysuitable screw-bolts beneath the central handle '7 is a curved barS,provided with a slot extending in the direction of its length andattached by means of a clamping screw-bolt 10 to a similar curvedslotted piece 9, rigidly attached to the guidebar 3.

The two curved pieces 8 and 9 being thus adapted to slide on each other,it is apparent the steering-handle 7 may be adjusted and clamped higheror lower, as conditions require or preference dictates, and whatever itselevation it is for the time being a rigid attachment of the machine anddoes not interfere with the use of the ordinary handles 4 in the usualway.

Having thus described my invention, what Iclaim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

The combinatiomwith abicycle-head, of the vertically-adjustable,supplemental steeringhandle, the clevis pivotally attached to the centerof the handle-bar, the two slotted and curved pieces rigidly attached tosaid clevis and handle-bar, respectively, and adapted to slide on eachother, and a device for clamping them in any adjustment, as shown anddescribed.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two'witnesses.

JAMES GODFREY.

Witnesses:

GEORGE M. SCHMIDT, H. J. LEVIS.

